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BLOG: Kevin and Joe Tomei talk about issues in languages, teaching, culture and politics at languagejapan.com.

NEW: Kevin is National Treasurer of JALT

NEW: ShowaELC.org website for SWU English Language and Communications Dept.

NEW: What's Up Setagaya! radio program.

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Updated 2007-01-10

Kevin has been a full-time assistant/associate professor (sennin koushi, then jokyouju) at Showa Women's University in Sangenjaya, Tokyo for the last 12 years. He teaches mostly writing, with and without computers. The students at Showa are hardworking and interested in learning English. Before Showa he taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Nanjing, Chicago and Barcelona. He has also written manuals for EEGs and EKGs, run a consortium of English schools, developed curriculum and written tests, lectured, coordinated intercultural seminars and counseled for study abroad.

• His current areas of research are using computers for language learning (CALL), and using the Internet to help people learn English. It's a lot of fun, even though it takes him away from his family too much.
• See a list of Publications and Presentations, including books, journal articles, commentaries and links to web sites he has helped develop.
• See a sample of the work he does at Showa Women's University with his Writing with Computers classes.
• See Kevin's Resume for a quick look at his professional history.
• See a list of abstracts and links to the full text of articles by Kevin Ryan for downloading (copyright applies).
• Check out Kevin's 1999 project, DEEP: Distance Engineering English Program, designed to help supplement a regular English language course (EFL) with language engineers often use. Kevin wrote most of the content for the program, developed by eigoMedia for Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology (TMIT) with a grant from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

News: Kevin has just finished editing a collection of practical ideas on CALL. 

Non-paying Hobbies:

He is Past President of the Tokyo PC User's Group, 160 people helping each other operate their IBM compatible machines.

He is also former Chair of the JALT CALL SIG with 300 teachers trying to figure out how to best use computers for language learning.